Aslam Khokhar | |
Birth Date: | 5 January 1920 |
Birth Place: | Lahore, British Punjab, British India |
Death Place: | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Legbreak |
Family: | Anwar Hussain (cousin) |
Role: | All-rounder |
Internationalspan: | 1954 |
Columns: | 2 |
Column1: | Test |
Matches1: | 1 |
Runs1: | 34 |
Bat Avg1: | 17.00 |
100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
Top Score1: | 18 |
Deliveries1: | – |
Wickets1: | – |
Bowl Avg1: | – |
Fivefor1: | – |
Tenfor1: | – |
Best Bowling1: | – |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/– |
Column2: | First-class |
Matches2: | 46 |
Runs2: | 1,863 |
Bat Avg2: | 27.80 |
100S/50S2: | 2/13 |
Top Score2: | 117 |
Deliveries2: | 1,040 |
Wickets2: | 20 |
Bowl Avg2: | 28.55 |
Fivefor2: | 1 |
Tenfor2: | 0 |
Best Bowling2: | 6/26 |
Catches/Stumpings2: | 18/– |
International: | true |
Country: | Pakistan |
Testdebutagainst: | England |
Testdebutdate: | 1 July |
Testdebutyear: | 1954 |
Onetest: | true |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/41283.html ESPNcricinfo |
Date: | 12 June |
Year: | 2017 |
Mohammad Aslam Khokhar (5 January 1920 - 22 January 2011) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test match in 1954.
Khokhar was born in Lahore, Punjab to a Khokhar family and was a cousin of Anwar Hussain Khokhar, who was a member of Pakistan's first Test team in 1952.[1]
Aslam Khokhar played in 45 first-class matches between 1938–39 and 1963–64, and scored the first ever century in first-class cricket in Pakistan[2] when, batting for Punjab against Sind in December 1947, he made 117.[3] In the second Test in England, he batted at number nine, scoring 16 and 18.[4] He also umpired 3 Tests in the 1970s.
Khokhar died in a Lahore hospital after a prolonged illness, on 22 January 2011. AT the time of his death, he was Pakistan's oldest surviving Test cricketer.[5]